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| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Jean Nicolet (1598-1642) was the first European to see Wisconsin and was a prominent French explorer who, for many years, lived among the Indians of Quebec... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Painted scene of an Indian guide paddling, Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary standing, and Louis Joliet, a fur trader paddling in a canoe exploring th... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built... |
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| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ... |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Canadian Prairie Indians on Snowshoes. |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver. |
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| Description: | Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832. |
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| Description: | Watercolor of Canadian Prairie Indian at lake's shore with gun in hand and a recently hunted duck on the ground. A dog is at his feet. On the far shoreline... |
| Date: | 1823 |
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| Description: | British evacuation of their fort at Prairie du Chien after the end of the War of 1812. Fort Shelby, the first fort at Prairie du Chien, was built in 1814 b... |
| Date: | 10 07 1934 |
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| Description: | James Jacco, Red Cliff Chippewa, and William Webster, Odanah Chippewa, competing in a lacrosse game. |
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| Description: | An Indian man sits in front of a dwelling forming a bow or stem for a canoe that he's making. In the background is a wigwam (or wetu). |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man shows a completed bow or stem for a canoe that he's constructing. Behind the man is a wigwam (or wetu). |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa Indian whittles strips of wood for the sides of a canoe under construction. In the background is a wigwam (or wetu). |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa Indian man is splitting cedar wood to make ribs for the canoe he's constructing. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man splits a cedar trunk with a wooden tool. The cedar is to be used to build the framework for a canoe. A woman is seated nearby. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man and woman prepare to transport rolled bark back to their home to use in the construction of a canoe. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man sits on the ground tying cedar materials with wigub as a woman looks on. The cedar will be used in the construction of a canoe. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man kneels on the ground to roll up cedar bark that will be used in the construction of a canoe. |
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